Addressing moral conflict. From personal ethical intelligence to shared ethical intelligence

Abstract

This article addresses a question of paramount importance to social action professionals: the difficulty of rigorously and effectively dealing with value conflicts in work teams. The author simply sets the scene and tries to put torward some load for thought, mainly the fruit of her experience, and also pinpoints the criteria to ethics and code to conduct that should guide any work team whose aim is to share the doubts and dilemmas of professional practice and analyse their task thoughifully. The idea is for the actual professionals, on the basis to these pointers and the bibliographic references provided, to go through their own leaning process.